It's Growing

That is my coffee table. That is half of the yo yo's. If you have any suggestions of colours I need more of please let me know! I need to work on that bottom middle bit, I had all these mainly white ones left over and I just didnt know what to do with them.

Bound!

With Christmas over and the gifts exchanged I now have a lot of DVD's to sit and watch, making it perfect time to get some hand work done!

I finished the binding on this on Boxing Day and it is already being used on the lounge chair


Here is a bad photo to show the quilting on the back. I used King Tut variegated thread. I have no idea what number it is but it goes between purple, orange and red and I really like it.

That isn't a pucker, that's just where I was too lazy to unfold it properly.

I'm really happy with it, and following with the tradition of working on something mostly finished, I spent a lot of time today weaving in ends on the all white quilt. Unfortunately there are a lot of ends to weave in, so its going to take more than a sitting of Get Smart and Monty Python to get it done.

Melanie's New Bag

I bought this the other day, and how awesome is it! It is so bright and cheery, definitely not like all those other green bags out there. It also contains a pocket inside to hold three bottles safely and a newspaper sleeve. I will hopefully be the trendiest person at the supermarket this Christmas!

County Fair

I quilted this a couple of weeks back.


Its a cheater cloth designed by Denyse Schmidt. The front is quilted using smoke invisible thread, and the black is a bright red variegated thread - this meant I didnt need to change thread throught the entire project. Now, like a lot of things round here, its just waiting patiently for the binding. Then it will take its place over the lounge chair properly.

I also broke my "nothing new" rule last week.. I was getting 'cutting crazy' and just had to cut something. So I have started the Extended Pinwheels Quilt out of A Colourful Journey, by Kaffe Fassett.
Just looking at it makes me smile. I am making mine out of green, cobalt and blue fabrics, taken from my shot cotton collection (of which I amazingly had 11 of in just the blues and greens), and then also from the Kaffe stash, which is still as large as ever. Now that I have started it I really wish I had have just used bigger triangles, because now I need to make double the triangles just to make it abouw 8 inches bigger on each side.

Killing Time

In one week I made more than 115 yo yo's.


This picture only shows the ones I made after I decided to see how many I would make without internet. In reality, I made about 20-30 more before I started putting them on the coffee table like this.

The total is now above 500. Yay!

Evidence

My mother doesn't believe that I wear the clothes she makes me out in public.

So here I am, on two separate work days wearing two things you made me. Sorry for the bad photo's, they were taken in one shot by co-workers.

For the record, I am wearing the hippo skirt right this moment, and while shopping today had a guy in a store go "Oh my god that chicks skirt has ....rhino's? NO! Hippo's on it! And one is biting another one! That is so cool!" He then turned to the other three guys around him and pointed it out to them.

And the dress? Well, the sleeves were still WAY to puffy, but with some minor adjustments through safety pins they have been de-puffified a fair bit.

No Internets!

My router blew up in lightning strike power surge *pop* last night, and it will take 2-5 buisness days to get a new one! Oh internet, I miss you already!

So when it does finally arrive hopefully sometime next week I should have lots of things to show, as I have already started making more yo yo's tonight, and have plans to finish the quilting of something else





PS. Mum- I can handle not having a tv, but with one day of not having internet I'm already going crazy!